Scholarship as Architecture: Framing and Enhancing Community Engagement

Abstract

When scholarship acts as the frame, it provides an architecture that enables faculty with community partners to practice community engagement in ways that produce credible scholarship. Community-engaged scholarship has significant structural parallels to traditional scholarship; however, because it is carried out in collaboration with the community, it reflects a wider variety of goals and results. Scholarship holds great promise as an underlying architecture through which physical therapist educators can shape and enhance their clinical and community-engaged work.